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Can I do a "one-time" file content search in Windows Server 2008 without adding the folder to the index?

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Can I search for files which contain a specific string in a folder if that folder is not in the search index? So, lets say folder 'textFiles' is not in the index. I navigate to this folder in Windows Explorer. I type '.ini' in the search box I want to see a result list containing only 'b.txt' I do ā€¦

Error Output

FOLDER C:\textFiles\

FILE  a.php  
CONTENT once twice thrice mice moose monkey

FILE b.txt
CONTENT mingle muddle middle.ini banana beer

FILE c.spo
ā€¦

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Fix for: Can I do a "one-time" file content search in Windows Server 2008 without adding the folder to the index?

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You can do this with the command line tool findstr.exe provided by Microsoft. Open a command prompt and navigate to c:\textfiles run command note: you can add /S to search all subdirectories Full details on FINDSTR

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